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| 155 police officers injured in mass brawl at football match in Germany |
| 2024-05-06 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] During a mass brawl at a regional German football league match between the Berlin club Dynamo and the Energie team from Cottbus, 155 police officers were injured. This was reported by Bild on May 5, citing a representative of the law enforcement agency. It is clarified that the match, which took place on May 4 in Berlin, was suspended in the first half because of Dynamo fans who began to set fire to Energa scarves and flags, and also throw stones at the visiting coach Klaus-Dieter Wollitz. As a result, a fight broke out, which the police dispersed with dogs and tear gas. Most of the law enforcement officers involved in dispersing the fight - 116 people - were injured by tear gas, 28 as a result of attacks by fans and another 11 by pyrotechnics. As Regnum reported, on April 22, in Colombia, a hooligan threw a knife from the stands at Atlético Nacional football player Pablo Seppelini during the 18th round match of the national championship against Independiente Medellin. The knife hit the player in the head, after which he fell and the referee suspended the match, which, after providing assistance to the victim, was completed with the consent of the football player. On April 12, the Union of European Football Associations opened a disciplinary case against the Spanish team Barcelona due to the Nazi salute of Catalan fans. Fans used Nazi salutes and made monkey gestures during the Champions League quarter-final match between Barcelona and PSG. |
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| Behind the scenes of the Nobel Peace Prize |
| 2023-10-08 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. Text taken from the Live Journal post of Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin. Commentary by Rozhin is in italics. [ColonelCassad] Interesting details about the new “Nobel laureate”. Intelligence services, drugs and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Behind the scenes of the Nobel Peace Prize In 2003, Nargiz Mohammadi joined the Center for Human Rights, founded in 2000 by Shirin Ebadi, winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize. He holds the position Vice President of the Human Rights Defense Center (DHRC). *** DHRC was established in Tehran in 2001. Ebadi received the Nobel Prize and Mohammadi got a job with her. The peculiarity is that Ebadi was an activist in the campaign to strengthen the legal status of women and this played a key role in the presidential elections in May 1997, which was won by reformist Mohammad Khatami and appointed Ali Shamkhani as Minister of Defense. Ebadi's human rights activities were aimed at demonstrating the cruelty of Khatami's conservative opponents in eliminating dissident intellectuals. Ali Khamenei pointed to the enemies of Iran, others specifically to the Israeli intelligence services, and Ebadi to the liquidation team from the Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS). So Said Emami, adviser to the Minister of Intelligence, was arrested and, under strange circumstances, passed away, hiding almost all traces. However, the story of the murder of Iranian-Kurdish dissidents in a Greek restaurant in Berlin (09/17/1992), the details of which were reported to German investigators by Abolghassem Mesbahi, a former Iranian intelligence officer who fled the country with the assistance of Emami, led to an arrest warrant for Ali Fallahian, an influential minister intelligence from 1989 to 1997 under Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. So Khatami, having become the president of Iran (when Bill Clinton began his second presidential term, replacing Secretary of State Christopher with Madeleine Albright, a protégé of Zbigniew Brzezinski), immediately weakened the position of his predecessors. Emami was Fallahian's deputy at MOIS and became an advisor to his successor Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi. The investigation into the “chain of murders” with the participation of Shirin Ebadi led not only to the liquidation of Emami, but also to the resignation of Dorri-Najafabadi. Only then (in February 1999) did Khatami have his own intelligence minister, Ali Younesi, who later served as adviser to President Hassan Rouhani on political and security issues. So, Shirin Ebadi is a very special human rights activist. When it created its center in Tehran, Ahmadinejad was the mayor. But what could he do against Khatami's will? And so in 2003, Nargiz Mohammadi, born in Zanjan, got a job with Ebadi. Perhaps then the game of Ahmadinejad or Khamenei began to introduce “their human rights activist” closer to the “alien” Ebadi (who has been living in exile in London since 2009, because she called for the cancellation of the election results in which Ahmadinejad was re-elected). Or Mohammadi, like Ebadi, represents the Khatami/Shamkhani network. This interpretation is also possible. Once again: the flow of opium from Baluchistan goes by land from Iran through Armenia to Georgia, and then by sea to Odessa; the scheme strengthens the elites of southern Iran, but the influence of the Azerbaijani provinces in the West (West and East Azerbaijan, Ardabil, Zanjan) decreases. More recently, Ali Shamkhani was getting closer with the NKR and was in conflict with Azerbaijan. The Nobel Committee, at the request of unnamed VIPs, confirmed that the influence of the Azerbaijani provinces has weakened and those who criticize the excesses of the regime are winning? And then the multifaceted regime sent the advanced Ahmadinejad to Guatemala. First delayed due to security issues. And then he left with a beautiful woman without a hijab on the plane (maybe they were waiting for her?). Show that Azerbaijani provinces can respond brightly. Exactly in the same special field. Almost simultaneously with Ahmadinejad's detention at the airport, some media in Colombia reported that former President Alvaro Uribe would stand trial and could receive 12 years in prison. Uribe, who has ties to Medellin and the local cartel, is on the opposite side of President Gustavo Petro's stance on drug policy splicing. The author is transparently trying to hint that the Iranian special services continue to play Zubatovism with “special human rights activists” since the late 80s, using them as a tool to control the human rights agenda and internal squabbles. The version, of course, has only indirect confirmation, but it has a right to exist, although the very fact of working for another “Nobel laureate”, who was supervised by Iranian intelligence services, does not yet prove that the new “laureate” also worked for them. Well, regarding drugs, the United States tried to separate Balochistan from Iranian territory as part of the 2007 “Greater Middle East” plan, which would allow them to control drug production in Balochistan, complementing other important drug countries that are under US control - Colombia , Afghanistan (until recently), Kosovo, etc. Baluchistan, if the Americans managed to destroy Iran, would be an excellent addition to this strategy of controlling the main flows of drug trafficking.Official Iran officially scolded the award of this prize, calling it an example of Western interventionism and its interference in the internal affairs of Iran. More from RIA Novosti Biography of Nargiz Mohammadi Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi was born on April 21, 1972 in Zanjan (Iran). She graduated from Imam Khomeini International University with a degree in physics. She worked as an engineer. While at university, she co-founded an organization called the Enlightened Students Group and was arrested twice. As a journalist, she wrote for various reformist magazines, including Payam-e Hajar. This publication was later banned. Mohammadi is also the author of political essays "Reforms, Strategy and Tactics" in Persian. In 2003, Nargiz Mohammadi joined the Center for Human Rights, founded in 2000 by Shirin Ebadi, winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize. He holds the position of Vice President of the Human Rights Center (DHRC). In 2008, she was elected president of the executive committee of the National Peace Council of Iran, a coalition against war and for human rights. Nargis Mohammadi was first arrested in 1998 for criticizing the Iranian government. Her most recent arrest occurred in November 2021, just a year after her October 2020 release . She was released on health grounds in February 2022 but was arrested again seven weeks later. In total, Nargis Mohammadi was arrested 13 times, convicted five times and sentenced to a total of 31 years in prison and 154 lashes. Nargiz Mohammadi has received many awards and honors for her human rights activities. Among them are the International Alexander Langer Prize ( 2009 ); Per Anger Prize - an international award from the Swedish government in the field of human rights ( 2011 ); Prize of the Italian Foundation "Galileo 2000" ( 2015 ); City of Paris Award from the Mayor of Paris and Reporters Without Borders (RSF, 2016 ); Human Rights Award from the German City of Weimar (2016); Andrei Sakharov Award from the American Physical Society ( 2018 ); Reporters Without Borders Award borders" ( 2022 ). In 2023, she was awarded the UNESCO Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize together with Nilufar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi. On October 6, 2023, Nargis Mohammadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for her struggle against the oppression of women in Iran and for promoting human rights and freedom for all." The material was prepared based on information from RIA Novosti and open sources. |
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| How the Colombians ended up in the Kramatorsk cafe under the Russian Iskander |
| 2023-07-01 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Olga Kuznetsova [REGNUM] On the evening of June 27, it was extremely restless in Kramatorsk. The Russian Iskander landed directly at the RIA Lounge cafe in the center of Kramatorsk, where foreign mercenaries had a good time in the company of foreign politicians and activists. It was subsequently revealed that mercenaries Alex Gallant , Nick Duworth and Arno Dedeker were in the kill zone , as well as three Colombian citizens who were having dinner in the company of Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina . It soon became known that the Colombian trinity is not so simple and is unlikely to have ended up in such a company by chance. What is the fact that one of them is the current member of the Parliament of Colombia Sergio Jaramillo . UNUSUAL TRINITY In addition to the Colombian politician Sergio Jaramillo, writer Hector Abad and journalist Catalina Gomez were on the scene . The first two were slightly injured, and Gomez, according to some reports, was either not injured at all, or was still forced to seek medical help. But Victoria Amelina, who accompanied them, is in critical condition. The biographies of these individuals are very interesting - let's start with Sergio Jaramillo. At one time, he managed to visit the High Commissioner for Peace under Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and was in the leadership of the negotiating group between the government of Colombia and the FARC guerrillas from 2012 to 2016. Jaramillo also served as Vice Minister of Defense of Colombia, National Security Adviser, held various diplomatic positions in Europe and traveled to Havana for negotiations. Educated at several universities: in Toronto, Oxford, Cambridge and one of the universities in Germany. In addition to his native Spanish, he is fluent in English, German and French. He also speaks Italian and Russian. In addition, Jaramillo is a relative of several Colombian presidents and ministers. This character arrived in Ukraine as the founder of the organization Aguanta Ucrania. Writer Hector Abad graduated from a private Catholic school run by the notorious organization Opus Dei, and lived in Italy and Spain for a long time. As they say, he is still associated with Opus Dei. He is also one of the "architects of peace negotiations with FARC" and an old acquaintance of Jaramillo. Catalina Gomez is also a graduate of one of the educational institutions subordinate to the Vatican - the Pontifical Bolivarian University in Medellin. AGUANTA UCRANIA As for the office, which was represented in Ukraine by the citizens of Colombia, its activities are aimed at spreading pro-Ukrainian narratives in the Latin American cultural environment. The organization brings together regional writers, artists, journalists, architects, designers, poets and many others. The well-known Chilean writer Isabel Allende , who has recently taken the fashion to compare everyone in a row with the dictator Augusto Pinochet, who killed her relative, President Salvador Allende, is the voice of individual actions of Aguanta Ucrania. At the moment, the organization is actively talking about the injuries of Jaramillo and his companions, as well as about the “nightmares of Russian shelling”, playing into the hands of Kiev and trying not to focus on the fact that “ordinary Colombian citizens” were among mercenaries, discussed aspects of assistance them. Attention is drawn to the fact that during the arrival Jaramillo talked with the Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina. The latter is quite well known in the European literary community for various kinds of creative publications about “war crimes in Russia”, “Ukrainian political prisoners in Russia” and victims of “Russian occupation authorities in the occupied territories”. The question is why it was necessary for the Colombians to hold such meetings in the immediate vicinity of the front line, and not somewhere in a safer place. Neither the Colombian nor the Ukrainian side bothered to explain this convincingly. Be that as it may, at present, representatives of Aguanta Ukrania are trumpeting with might and main about the barbarism of the Russian troops, calling the incident a war crime and threatening to send "all the necessary data" to the relevant international organizations. REACTION IN COLOMBIA The story of the Latin Americans in Kramatorsk soon reached their native Colombian shores, and after ten hours, Colombian President Gustavo Petro reacted to the incident . Former left partisan, by the way. The President said that Russia attacked "three defenseless Colombian citizens" and thereby "violated the protocols of the war." In this regard, the Foreign Ministry was ordered to send Moscow a diplomatic note of protest. Also in Colombia, all three are expected to return home "safe and sound" - Jaramillo, Abada and Gomez. These statements instantly scattered in the pro-Western Spanish-language media. Many also relished a “provocative statement from the Russian embassy in Bogota” that allegedly described the Colombian trip to the city close to the front line as “reckless” and the place as “unsuitable for tasting Ukrainian cuisine.” It should be noted that, in fact, this is the first harsh statement of the President of Colombia in connection with the events in Ukraine. But in this case, there is an explanation for this - Jaramillo, Abad and Petro are old acquaintances and together were in the team of President Juan Manuel Santos: the first two lit up in peace negotiations with FARC, and Petro served as the mayor of Bogotá. True, the Colombian political groups, to which most of the regional media is subordinate, considered Petro's reaction "too soft." In this regard, the newspapers have been full of headlines for several days about “the monstrous barbarism of Russia” - this, for a moment, is happening in a country where the civil war (of which thousands of people become victims every year) is still not over. Well, according to the classics, the authors of such publications demand “decisive action” from the president of Colombia. For example, join the sanctions or even send weapons to Ukraine. NATO PARTNER ON DISTANT SHORES Interest in the incident involving Colombians is fueled by the fact that information about mercenaries from this Latin American country regularly appears in the press in the context of the conflict in Ukraine. And this is not surprising. For many years, hostilities have continued in Colombia between the current government, radical groups and drug cartels. The economic situation in outlying provinces, and indeed in many large cities, leaves much to be desired. The country has an abundance of retired military, police, people in trouble with the law and disillusioned with the system. And they are all actively looking for ways to make money. Someone goes into crime, while for others the creation of the Ukrainian "international legion" was a gift. At the same time, Colombian mercenaries who managed to serve in the army or the police are valuable in that they were trained by American instructors and, taking advantage of this fact, often knock out higher pay for themselves, getting to new “jobs” far from their native land. The situation is also interesting in that back in 2017, Colombia became the first NATO partner in Latin America and repeatedly conducted demining exercises for the military personnel of other countries of the Alliance. And Colombian military personnel have been seen more than once in general military operations, which were carried out quite far from Latin America. The mechanism in this case is as follows: thanks to a number of military agreements with the Colombian government, NATO calls for participation in special operations (for example, it happened in Afghanistan) Colombian military personnel who are in UN peacekeeping missions in African countries - the Central African Republic, Mali and others. In addition, in the summer of 2022, a group of military personnel from Colombia was officially transferred to Ukraine as an aid to the Armed Forces of Ukraine “in mine clearance work.” Initially, they were sent to one of the countries bordering Ukraine, probably Poland, and only after that they arrived directly in the country for a period of five to nine months. Colombian Defense Minister Diego Molano said that assistance to Ukraine is carried out within the framework of the country's status as the main US ally outside NATO and was agreed with the Pentagon. In this regard, many expect that the situation with Sergio Jaramillo and Co., who fell (or rather, slightly hurt) under a Russian missile attack, can be used to ensure that Colombia finally joins Western sanctions, and also sends its weapons to Ukraine. Russian production. Gustavo Petro, by the way, a few months ago abandoned such actions, persistently proposed by the American "partners", and dealt more with regional issues. Let's see if he makes any decisions now. |
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| -Land of the Free |
| Trump Endorses Using Military to Crush Cartels: ‘I Would Do That' |
| 2023-04-21 |
| [Breitbart] Former President Donald Trump told Breitbart News exclusively that he supports a proposal from Reps. Michael Waltz (R-FL) and Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) that would authorize the use of military force against Mexican drug cartels to target the criminal enterprises and dismantle them. “I would do that,” Trump said when asked about the congressmen’s Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) legislation that they have recently proposed. Trump had earlier this year released a policy video in which he explained he supported using the military to target the cartels, but this is the first time he has weighed in on the specific proposal before Congress to do so. In response to Waltz’s AUMF plan, Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador has said he opposes it and even threatened to interfere in U.S. elections to help Democrats and oppose Republicans in response to it. “In addition to being irresponsible, it is an offense to the people of Mexico,” Lopez Obrador said in March. "And it would impact my income" Trump, in his exclusive interview here with Breitbart News last week after his speech at the National Rifle Association (NRA) annual gathering, noted that he does in fact have a good relationship with Lopez Obrador. Trump called Lopez Obrador a “gentleman,” even though he is a “socialist” and argued that if elected back to the White House he believes he would be able to work with the Mexican leader to crush the cartels and use U.S. military assets to help. “I also have a very good relationship with the president of Mexico,” Trump told Breitbart News. “He’s a socialist but he also happens to be a gentleman. You can’t have everything, right? But he’s a great person. Certainly, I would deal with him. This is an invasion of our country — this isn’t just people walking over. This is an invasion. Many of these are people we do not want in our country. They’re very bad for our country. They’re very bad and dangerous. But this is an invasion of our country. Nope, we will stop it and we will stop it immediately.” Trump is right that he and Lopez Obrador had a decent working relationship when he was president. In fact, that relationship was the foundation for one of Trump’s most consequential policies, the Remain-in-Mexico plan, which had asylum seekers stay on the other side of the border while their claims were processed rather than being released into the United States as current Democrat President Joe Biden is doing by the millions. Waltz, in an exclusive interview last month at the House GOP conference retreat in Orlando, told Breitbart News that what his AUMF would open up is the use of military resources like space and cyber assets. “It essentially authorizes military resources,” Waltz said. “So, space assets for targeting. Your Border Patrol — our law enforcement and border entities don’t have their own space assets. The military does. Offensive cyber — as opposed to just defending our networks here at home, but actually getting inside somebody else’s networks and start disrupting their money, their logistics, their ability to communicate. That all sits inside the Defense Department. So, this would authorize the use — this would authorize the use of military force, but I think it’s more accurate to call it resources.” Waltz during that interview compared his proposal to something that former Democrat President Bill Clinton did with the Colombian government in the 1990s to use the U.S. military to help dismantle two major Colombian cartels. That mission, titled Plan Colombia, saw the U.S. military cooperating with the Colombian government to successfully destroy the Cali and the Medellin cartels. Asked about that comparison that Waltz made back to Plan Colombia during the Clinton years, Trump told Breitbart News that “absolutely” he could see something like that with Lopez Obrador and Mexico if he’s back in the White House. Trump also noted that many people streaming across the border are sick or susceptible to spreading serious diseases, something recent statistics confirm. As Breitbart News reported this week, for instance, more than half of the border crossers brought to New York City are not vaccinated against polio. “We’re being invaded. They’re invading our country,” Trump told Breitbart News. “They’re killing people. The crime is up because of the people that are coming in. Not all, but many, and they’re coming in from prisons and mental institutions. These countries are doing it. I had it stopped. I had it totally stopped. If other countries wouldn’t do it, we weren’t going to give them any money. We give a lot of money to these countries. I would have that stopped immediately and we would bring people out. But absolutely, this is an invasion. We have soldiers coming into our country. They’re making people sick. Many of these people are sick with very contagious disease and they’re spreading this all over our country. This is an invasion of our country. It has to stop. So if somebody is talking about military, I certainly wouldn’t rule that out.” |
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| -Short Attention Span Theater- |
| Town is swamped by giant MARIJUANA cloud after Colombian police burn 1.5ton of seized drug... but forgot to allow for the wind |
| 2022-07-15 |
 [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Bet they felt silly.
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| All But the Lamest RINOs Are Getting Conserva-Woke Now |
| 2020-10-29 |
| It's Kurt. [Townhall] One of the many glories of Donald Trump is his remarkable ability to clarify the truths that have been hidden, or that weak and stupid people have just preferred not to see. Our garbage institutions are teetering, victims of age, technology, and the utter corruption and incompetence of our allegedly elite ruling caste, and for years the soft conservatives have refused to see what is right in front of their dumb, pasty faces. Thanks to Trump breaking them in mind, body, and spirit, there's no denying it anymore. The Establishment is a boil that must be lanced. So many people used to wishcast good faith upon the Establishment even in these chaotic times. How often have you seen Republicans treating the mainstream media like buddies instead of the partisan opponents that they are? GOP dummies go on "60 Minutes" or some Sunday morning libfest, get ritually disemboweled, and come back scratching their toupees wondering what the hell just happened. But but but the host was unfair. But but but the host was biased. But but but I don't understand. But but but I was told that the media were brave truth tellers of truth! Well, understanding the reality has been thrust upon even the stupidest of us.  Take a look at the Hoover Biden laptop thing. We have a computer that the Toast of Medellin gave to a repair man and forgot about because meth-huffing losers forget about stuff. We got his signature on the papers. We got his ambulance chaser demanding it back. We got the testimony of a veteran with a vaguely Slavic name whistleblowing it, and I was told that it's literally treason to doubt whistleblowing veterans with a vaguely Slavic name (maybe they have to look like a bratwurst in their uniform for this to apply – it's hard to keep track of the ever-changin' rules).Is he perchance referring to Lt. Col. Sausage? Do go read the whole thing! |
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| So, How Do They Dump Biden? |
| 2020-09-18 |
 [Townhall] It's Kurt As the Democrat presidential campaign degenerates into "Weekend at Gropey’s," a question arises: Assuming the Dems and their media minions somehow drag that rickety, basement-dwelling weirdo across the finish line, how do they get rid of him post-inauguration? Clearly, he would be a figurehead as Dr. Demento — sorry, Dr. Jill — and Kamala Harris joust for control before a backdrop of scheming pinko puppetmasters. But sooner or later, probably sooner, the Dem elite is going to try to put him out to pasture. How could they pull it off? And can they? Let’s see...A few caveats: I think Donald Trump is going to win, so this is all hypothetical. The only bright spot for the Dems is the garbage polls his lying mainstream media allies keep pushing, and the liars are even having to concede that those are tightening, especially in states that matter. We’re days away from them pulling Grandpa Badfinger out of the debate. My money is still on the "I won’t normalize Trump’s racist cisgender sexism by appearing on stage with him" excuse, but "I fear the flu" is a close second. His recent catastrophic appearances outside his dungeon lair demonstrate that this guy couldn’t hack a debate if he was snorting rails of Namenda like Hunter hoovering blow on New Year’s Eve in Medellin. Trump holds an indisputable edge in other important areas, too, like enthusiasm, ground game, and continence. I also want to put aside the very serious issue of the Democrat transition disruption plans, a plot so staggeringly unwise that only our garbage elite could conceive of it and think it would work out all right for them. Their dual track strategy of stealing the election through legal and extra-legal shenanigans, followed by cementing their own power via attacks on the Supreme Court, the Electoral College, giving statehood to territories, defunding cops, and disarming the populace even as they attempt to limit free speech are a recipe for disaster. So, let’s put aside the second civil war these fools seem intent on provoking — our esteemed elite does not seem to remember that Democrats are already 0-1 — and assume the peaceful transition of power they would deny Trump (and you). Let’s focus on how they try to get rid of Bad Touch Biden should they win, because it’s pretty obvious that he can’t function as president, and it’s pretty obvious that other people want that gig. They are sharpening their knives already. There is one huge problem with getting rid of him: his wife. She wants to be president so bad she can taste it, and she’s more excited to be president — uh, I mean first lady — than Brian Stelter, who is a potato, is at the thought of visiting Golden Corral. She’s going to do everything she can to be a limo lib Edger Bergen to her husband’s less-animated Charlie McCarthy. Moreover, the Joe Junta of advisors wants its payoff. With Depends Boy as figurehead, they not only get jobs but they get a whole lot of lightly supervised power. So, there will be a potent Dem faction supporting the Presidency of the Living Dead. But others in the Dem elite want Oldfinger out of the way. Of course, Kamala Harris is the grasping, striving avatar of this faction. She’s already talking about "a Harris Administration." If I were Dr. Jill, which would be weird, I’d send some intern out to start Air Force One in the morning and hire a taster to clear Joe’s mornin’ mush. Now, am I saying that Kamala Harris would physically harm Joe Biden? Let’s just say that I’d rather gulp down Ruth Gordon’s smoothies in Rosemary’s Baby than roll those dice. Regardless, she (and the Democrat establishment using the crusty crustacean as a Trojan Horse to retake power) will want be rid of him. The 25th Amendment is the most obvious play. And, frankly, it would be legit, since he is manifestly incompetent, not that stuff like facts and truth matter in modern politics. The 25th Amendment, one of the rare parts of the Constitution that Democrats like, has been their fantasy Hail Mary play since Trump beat Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit. It is worth reviewing the entire process for replacing the president as outlined in Section 4, since, if America is dumb enough to elect the Dementiacrat in seven weeks, we’ll all be getting really familiar with it:
So, here is how it goes. President Biden gets inaugurated showing up for the ceremony in his untied bathrobe and confusing the oath with the Armour hot dogs jingle. Very quickly, Dr. Jill and the Biden Bunch start running things in his name while he spends his day upstairs in the Lincoln Bedroom, sitting on a stool, watchin’ his stories. The media gets busy covering for him because no contrary memo has circulated. They ice out Kamala, who tries to assert control. Instead of wielding power, she’s sent off to do veep stuff, like appear at the bar mitzvah for the nephew of the High Poobah of Burkino Faso. This annoys her, and her allies — remember, due to her notorious flexibility, she is the candidate Obama and the establishment really wanted. The trigger for the coup will be when Biden’s handlers are unable to push through the entire lefty agenda through Congress in the first 100 days. Banning guns, packing the Supreme Court, single-payer, Green New Scam. Assuming the worst case, that Schumer takes the Senate majority, they have to kill the filibuster and outmaneuver Cocaine Mitch to do all that. They need an active, potent president, and the one they are stuck with is busy slurping oatmeal. The rush to the left bogs down because Biden can’t lead. The Democrat base starts getting restless, and it accurately assesses that the problem is that they nominated and elected a senile old weirdo. Dr. Jill gets a visit from a delegation of Dem bigwigs who tell her it’s time for him to resign. She refuses. She probably does not even let them see Joe, who is busy with a puzzle. A decision is made: Kamala needs to take over. The cabinet is full of folks like Pete Buttigieg, and with the aggressive action one would expect of the Audie Murphy of Kabul, he leads the other cabinet members (all of whom imagine they could be the next veep) to declare in writing that Joe is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Kamala takes over as acting president. But the fight has only just started. Dr. Jill and the Biden Battalion send their own letter to the President pro tem and the Speaker of the House denying any disability. Within four days, Kamala and the cabinet send their response saying the opposite. Now Congress has to decide the issue. It assembles within 48 hours and has to vote within 21 days on whether Biden gets booted. That’s when the snapping Murder Turtle bites hard. See, to remove Joe and permanently install Kamala, you need "two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office." McConnell now holds all the cards. There's no two-thirds without his GOP bloc. He goes to Dr. Jill and says, "You chill on the leftism, and we let President Magoo — and you — run out the clock until 2024." Of course, she agrees. She’s got no choice. It’s either run a center-left presidency without the insane leftist nonsense Diddles ran on, or pack her stuff and get the hell out. That’s an easy call. President Biden gets to stumble through the next four years while Kamala gets to spend her terms doing potlucks with el Presidente de Paraguay. Think it can’t happen? Dude, it’ll be 2021. After 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and now 2020, do you believe there is any insane scenario that can’t actually happen in 2021? |
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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| Delingpole: Greta Thunberg -- Patron Saint of the Age of Stupidity |
| 2019-08-17 |
 [BREITBART] St Greta of Thunberg has made it into the cover of GQ and is now on her way across the Atlantic in a $4 million yacht to lecture Americans about climate change. Could there be anything more emblematic of the stupidity of our age?My first question would be: what is a 16-year old autistic school drop-out who has done nothing of note in her life other regurgitate climate propaganda doing on the cover of a men’s magazine? Call me naive but I thought the point of men’s magazines was to write about stuff that men might find interesting: dodging snipers’ bullets in war zones; free-diving with great white sharks; playing Scrabble with the Medellin cartel; where to track down the coolest leather jacket under £1,000; strafing a remote baboon colony in a Mig-25 Foxbat; the quest for the world’s purest MDMA. Sure, girls have a place in this universe: as decoration and objects of lust. But spooky Greta with her pigtails and thousand-yard stare of disapproval is not only far too young to qualify for that status but far too earnest and grim. And boring. What kind of man would be remotely interested in buying a mag whose main feature entailed a finger-wagging lecture (one we’ve all heard a gazillion times before) about how, like, totally endangered the planet is and how totally it’s all our fault and how we’ve got to abandon all the things we hold dear ‐ meat; air travel; fast cars; designer threads ‐ in order to stop all the baby polar bears melting? |
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| Syria-Lebanon-Iran |
| Al Arabiya documentary reveals Hezbollah’s drug trade, money laundering links |
| 2018-11-29 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] In a deep look into a "thriller" investigation, Al Arabiya’s exclusive documentary "Hezbollah’s Narco Jihad" discusses the involvement of the designated terrorist organization, Hezbollah, in the global drug trade and explains how it uses money laundering to substitute for its fund shortage. From 2009 to July 2013, an estimated 7,000 people were killed in the Medellin mafia wars in Colombia, as different challengers sought to claim Don Berna’s criminal throne as head of the Oficina de Envigado (the Envigado office), and become the successor to the Medellin Cartel. Until his death in Medellin in 1993, Pablo Escobar was the unchallenged head of the Medellin Cartel. A former sicario of the Medellin cartel, who is also said to have been Escobar’s most loyal man, told Al Arabiya in its exclusive documentary that: "The cartel of Medellin was too powerful. It had an aircraft fleet of around 140, it had more than 3,000 hit men, and it had a cruel intelligence structure. They bribed people from the State, operated a lot of intelligence matters. It was a totally criminal organization, with a great deal of money, possessing many weapons and an elaborate infrastructure." For two years after Escobar’s death, the Cali Cartel was able to continue operating with the same modus operandi, until the leaders, the Rodriguez Orejuela brothers, were captured in 1995. Then the Colombian underworld became fragmented, and now drug trafficking syndicates are eluding countering forces with new strategies. The documentary explains that this meant working with the Italian Mafia in Europe, and tapping into the huge Brazilian and Argentinian markets in South America. It also meant increased coordination between Colombian organized crime that had migrated to the Middle East, and known Hezbollah associates that had been in the Guajira region of Colombia for the past decade. In October 2008, a joint endeavor by American and Colombian Sherlocks dismantled an international cocaine smuggling and money laundering ring that allegedly directed part of its profits to finance Hezbollah. As the investigation progressed, the undercover agent got close enough to the cartel to serve as one of its money launderers. The agent laundered some $20 million, enabling the DEA to follow the money and map out much of the cartel’s operations. The operation broke down before direct terrorism charges were filed. While some claim the operation ended due to interagency squabbling, many government officials believe that the Obama Administration tamped down the investigation of Hezbollah for fear of jeopardizing the impending nuclear deal with Iran. Leb was the Middle East’s leading producer of illicit drugs in the 1970s and 1980s, with cultivation taking place mostly in the northern Bekaa Valley, according to United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) figures. American intelligence analysts believe that for years Hezbollah received as much as $200 million annually from its primary patron, Iran, along with additional aid from Syria. But that support has diminished, the analysts say, as Iran’s economy buckles under international sanctions over its nuclear program and Syria’s government battles rising popular unrest. Auditors brought in to scrub the books discovered nearly 200 accounts with links to Hezbollah and their classic signs of money laundering. "Hezbollah’s Narco Jihad" takes the audience through the details of the organization’s drug trade and money laundering, reaching up to today’s reality stating that the same networks are still active. |
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| Caribbean-Latin America |
| Colombian Airline Wants To Make Its Planes Have Ridiculously Small Standing Seats |
| 2017-06-28 |
| [Daily Caller] Columbian budget airline VivaColombia renewed its call for "standing seats" in an attempt to reduce ever-increasing flying costs. VivaColombia, which flies daily from Medellin to Miami, is the latest airline to express interest in vertical seating, The Telegraph reported Tuesday. "There are people out there right now researching whether you can fly standing up," VivaColombia’s founder and CEO William Shaw said. "We’re very interested in anything that makes travel less expensive." Airbus pioneered vertical seating in 2003, and in 2010, RyanAir toyed with the same idea, calling vertical seats "bar stools with seat belts." The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said that seatbelts are necessary to keep passengers safe, adding that there would be many barriers to break before carriers could launch "stand-up" flights. |
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| Report: Hizbullah Group Arrested in Laundering Cocaine Money Through Miami Banks |
| 2016-10-14 |
| [AnNahar] Three associates of Hizbullah ... Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistanceand purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... party suspected of laundering cocaine money for the Colombian cartel have been busted after agents said they illegally moved $500,000 into Miami banks through a series of complicated financial transactions stretching from Australia to Europe, the Miami Herald reported. Mohammed Ahmad Ammar, 31, is the main player who was living in Medellin, Colombia. He was imprisoned last week into a Miami-Dade jail to face state felony money laundering charges. Two other Hizbullah associates are facing charges in the same case. One of them is in jug in Gay Paree, while the other is still on the lam, possibly in Leb or Nigeria, added the Miami Herald. The involvement of radical Islamic terrorist groups in Latin American is not new but has increased in recent years, according to federal law enforcement and security experts, said the daily. According to a congressional report on border security, Latin America has become a money laundering and major fundraising center for Hizbullah. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration announced in February an enforcement activity against people with links to Hizbullah, which came after the U.S. Department of Treasury announced sanctions against Hizbullah's financiers, whom they believe are capable of earning $400 million a year from drug trafficking and money laundering. Hizbullah-related arrests stemming from Latin American have popped up before in South Florida, said the daily. In 2008, a Lebanese man named Chekri Harb described by Colombian security officials as having links to Hizbullah was locked away Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! and convicted as part of a large-scale Colombian cocaine ring. In 2010, three South Florida businessmen were arrested on accusations of of exporting video games and other electronic products to a shopping mall in Paraguay that allegedly served as a front to Hizbullah. Ammar who is in jug in Miami, was described in court documents as a Hizbullah associate whose job was to launder money for the Colombian cocaine operation known as La Oficina, or The Office, an off-shoot of the notorious Medellin cartel. He was known to launder money through Holland, Spain, the United Kingdom, Australia and Africa, according to an arrest warrant. Ammar is charged with eight felonies, including money laundering and conspiracy to launder money; court records do not list a defense attorney. Ghassan Diab, another purported Hizbullah associate based in Nigeria who is still on the lam, is facing charges. He is related to a "high-ranking member of Hizbullah who has access to numerous international bank account." The third accomplice facing charges is Hassan Mohsen Mansour of Hizbullah with dual Lebanese and Canadian citizenship. He is in jug in Gay Paree, and is facing a separate but similar federal money-laundering prosecution in South Florida, said the daily. |
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| The 1970's Colombian "Queen of Cocaine" Murdered |
| 2012-09-04 |
[Fox News]  Griselda Blanco, Colombia's infamous "queen of cocaine" of the 1970s, was murdered in the northwestern city of Medellin, police said.Blanco, who spent two decades behind bars in the United States, was bumped off on Monday as she left a butcher shop in the western section of Medellin, the capital of Antioquia province. The 69-year-old Blanco was shot twice in the head outside the shop in the Belen neighborhood by a hitman who sped away on a cycle of violence. She was with her pregnant daughter-in-law, who was not hurt in the shooting, police spokesmen said. Blanco began smuggling cocaine into the United States before the rise of the Medellin cartel, led by Pablo Escobar and Carlos Lehder, and the Cali cartel, which was founded by brothers Miguel and Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, officials said. Blanco came up with the idea of "exporting cocaine" to the United States and was known for not hesitating to kill anyone, including one of her husbands, who got in her way. The narco, who was also known as "The Godmother," was a pioneer in establishing smuggling routes from Colombia into the United States. Blanco was convicted of conspiracy to smuggle cocaine into the United States in 1985, served two decades in prison and was deported to Colombia in 2004. The former narco kept a low profile since returning to Colombia despite once being considered one of the wealthiest women in the world. |
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